Electrically-heated automobile hood and radiator cover



G. T. NEWELL, JR. ELECTRICALLY HEATED AUTOMOBILE HOOD AND RADIATOR COVER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB.- 2. 1920.

- Patented Dec. 7, 1920.

GEORGE T. NEWELL, JR.. OF BEVERLY, NEW JERSEY. i

ELECTRIGALLY-HEATED AUTOMOBILE HOOD AND RADIATOR COVER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 7, 1920.

Application led February 2, 1920. Serial No. 355,565.

' To all whom it may concer/a.'

Be it known that I, GEORGE T. NnwnLL, Jr.,

a citizen of the United States of America,

residing at Beverly, Burlington county,

State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Electrically-Heated Automobile Hood and Radiator Covers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in electrically heated covers for automobile hoods and radiators, one ofthe objects of my invention beingto provide a cover for automobile hoods and radiators arranged to materially assist in keeping the engine warm while the vehicle is standing in a coldgarage or other place. My invention is more especially intended for use in connection 1 with vehicles placed in garages which are not heated, and'is designed to keep the motori` Warm, thereby obviating the necessity of drawing olf the water in cold weather.

To carry out my invention, I provide a combined hood and radiator cover having' electrical heating means preferably a resistance, either in the form of coils or straight Wires, suitable connections being provided to connect same to a lighting circuit when the vehicle is not in use. By means of the resistance incorporated inthe said covers, they can be maintained heated, thereby providing a heated jacket for the hood and radiator, which will act to prevent the water in the radiator and water jacket of the motor from freezing.

I will now describe my invention in detail, the novel features of which I will finally claim, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1. isa perspective View of a hood and radiator of a mot-or vehicle provided with my improvement;

Fig. 2 is a diagrammatic layout of said hood and radiator'cover together with resist- I ance elements therein;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary sectional view; and

Fig. 4 is an enlarged sectional view, illustrating the separable fastening elements for the apron of the radiator cover and which also act as circuit members.

As herein arranged, my inventioneonsists of a hood cover 5 and radiator cover 6 having the usual apron 7 to cover the opening 8 while the vehicle is standing, said apron being dropped to allow air to fiow through opening 8 while the vehicle is in motion.

In this `instance the hood cover and radiator cover are illustrated as connected, but they can be used as separate members if desirable; 1n other Words, they can be constructed as two separate and distlnct elements.

As. herein arranged, the hood cover 5 is provided with resistance elements 9, 10, and 11, the elements 9 and 11 being incorporated in the side members 12 and 13 of the hood cover, and the resistance element 10 in the top element 14 of the said hood cover.

The radiator cover 6 is provided With resistance elements 15 and 16 and the apron 7 of the radiator cover with resistance elements 17. 'As herein illustrated, the resistvance elements 9, 10 and 11 are connected to a vcircuits 18 and 20, while termed separate circuits, may, and probably will be in most cases connected to the same main circuit of the lighting system of the building Within which the vehicle iS stored. The circuits 18 and 20, more properly speaking, Will be branch circuits.

The resistance within the apron, 17 Will be connected to the circuit for the vresistances 16. in the envelop member of the hood, when said apron is positioned to cover opening 18. To accomplish this result automatically, I employ the fastening elements 22 and 23, Fig. 4 (which in this instance are of the ball-and-socket variety), as circuit members by connecting the positive Wire 24, for instance, for resistances 17 to one of the socket members 22 by a lead 25, and the cooperating button or ball 23 to the adjacent resistance 17, in apron 7, by a lead 26. The negative wire 27 for resistances 16 will be connected to the other socket member of the apron fasteningr device by a lead 27a and the coperating button or ball will be connected to its adjacent resistance 17, .wit-hin apronv 7,

trative only. as thel resistancesean be laid out in a variety of ways to accompiish the result sought. e

When a vehicle. equipped with my improved device. is driven into a garage having an electrical circuit and branches for connection with my improvedrover, one branch circuit will be connected by connection 1S), and another by connection 2l. When the current is turned on. the cover will become heated and it' the current is allowed to remain on. it will maintain said cover heated. thereby providing -a heated jacket for the motor. The covers will preferably be made of two layers 31 and 32. the resistance. wire being located between said layers. asillustrated in Fig. 3.

Having described my invention, what l claim is:

l. :L radiator cover for motor vehicles having an opening and an apron to cover same arranged to be moved to uncover said opening. means to separably connect Said apron and radiator cover, electrical resistances within the radiator cover, electrical resistances within lsaid apron, and means to automatically connect the resistances in said apron to the leads for the resistances in the radiator cover when said. apron is fastened to the cover to close the opening therein.

2. A radiator cover for motor vehicles having an opening and an apron to cover aaid opening. fastening elements carried by the cover adjacent the opening therein, eoopcrating fastening elements carried by the apron to engage the fastening elements on the cover. an electrical resistance within the cover and an electrical resistance within the apron. the fastening elements on said cover being connected in parallel with the circuit for the resistance within the cover, the cooperating fastening elenients on the apron being in series with the resistance in the apron. all arranged so that the circuit for the resistance within the apron will be automatically established when the Cover is fas- 4tened to the apron to cover said opening.

Signed at New York city, N. i.. this 30 day of January 1920.

GEORGE T. NEWELL. Jn. Witnesses MAUIucE BLOCH, EDWARD A. JARvls. 

